@arwen54: I'm not missing your point. Something you (and a few others who commented) didn't seem to catch was my question asking what would we put in a news letter that couldn't be a post and/ or thread in the forum?

My personal issue with your suggestion of adding every single registered user to an email list for what ever purpose is no one opted in (or out) for being on a mailing list when signing up and/ or registering for an account on Open Designs, so there will be a lot of clean up to be done, which is what I am trying to do in the first place.

So far, I've tracked down 2,000+ accounts that haven't been logged into for 12+ months. I have also sent emails to all of them without any reply so far (been 48 hours and counting). I'm giving the 2,000 +/- users I emailed a week to reply and if they don't, they'll be removed from the database and can register if they choose at a later time.

In the end, I probably won't have much to do with all of this sort of thing anyway as my time as an OD admin is coming to a close pretty soon, so the other admins and my replacement (to be decided) can figure it out.

@arwen54: Not a problem. Suggestions are always good.

If you (and others) read all my comments, you'll see I'm trying to flush this out a bit... whatever ends up happening, it's not going to be an over night thing.

Bakies for all

Posted By: JeremyDI say we sacrifice a lamb to the web gods and ask for guidance.

*bows to our w3c overlord*

Har-har Jeremy.

How about we sacrifice the 1,989 users I emailed (48 hours ago) who haven't logged into there accounts in 12+ months? That's what will happen if I don't get any replies within the next 5-7 days... to the chopping block

I'm also working on a way for users to opt in or out of future Open Design correspondence if we choose to have some sort of a email newsletter or site survey.

@Gnome: Most have an opt in/out feature. Indeed it is a requirement in the USA and a lot of our user/membership base is from the USA, so this is why I want to make sure we have this in place.

My plan is if/when I don't hear from the 1,989 users I sent a message to about not logging into there accounts for 12+ months and I remove those accounts, we'll have a cleaner list of users to send out another message asking them if they opt in or out to receiving emails about new site policy/rule updates, and/or a newsletter type message, etc.